First Chronicles of Druss the Legend

Zusatztext "David Gemmell tells a tale of very real adventure! the stuff of true epic fantasy." --R. A. SALVATORE    New York Times bestselling author "Gemmell's great reading; the action never lets up; he's several rungs above the good--right into the fabulous!" --ANNE MCCAFFREY "I am truly amazed at David Gemmell's ability to focus his writer's eye. His images are crisp and complete! a history lesson woven within the detailed tapestry of the highest adventure. Gemmell's characters are no less complete! real men and women with qualities good and bad! placed in trying times and rising to heroism or falling victim to their own weaknesses." --R. A. SALVATORE    New York Times bestselling author    of The Demon Apostle Informationen zum Autor David Gemmell was born in London, England, in the summer of 1948. Expelled from school at sixteen for organizing a gambling syndicate, he became a laborer by day, and at night his six-foot-four-inch, 230-pound frame allowed him to earn extra money as a bouncer working nightclubs in Soho. Born with a silver tongue, Gemmell rarely needed to bounce customers, relying on his gift of gab to talk his way out of trouble. At eighteen this talent led to a job as a trainee journalist, and he eventually worked as a freelancer for the London Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, and Daily Express. His first novel, Legend, was published in 1984 and has remained in print ever since. He became a full-time writer in 1986. Klappentext He was known as Druss. The Deathwalker. Though the blood of merciless butchers coursed through his veins, he had found a fragile peace through his love for beautiful, mystical Rowena. Then came the day when Druss returned to their village and found everyone dead--massacred by slavers who had stolen the women to sell for gold. Rowena was among the missing. Armed with only his powerful double-bladed ax, Snaga, Druss went after Rowena. His journey would carry him from the highest thrones of power to the deepest dungeons of depravity. Along the way, he would battle savage monsters and descend into terrifying lands of black magic and demons. Yet one thing was certain. Druss would have victory . . . or death. Leseprobe Screened by the undergrowth, he knelt by the trail, dark eyes scanning the boulders ahead of him and the trees beyond. Dressed as he was in a shirt of fringed buckskin, and brown leather leggings and boots, the tall man was virtually invisible, kneeling in the shadows of the trees. The sun was high in a cloudless summer sky, and the spoor was more than three hours old. Insects had crisscrossed the hoofmarks, but the edges of the prints were still firm. Forty horsemen, laden with plunder ... Shadak faded back through the undergrowth to where his horse was tethered. He stroked the beast's long neck and lifted his swordbelt from the back of the saddle. Strapping it to his waist, he drew the two short swords; they were of the finest Vagrian steel and double edged. He thought for a moment, then sheathed the blades and reached for the bow and quiver strapped to the saddle pommel. The bow was of Vagrian horn, a hunting weapon capable of launching a two-foot-long arrow across a killing space of sixty paces. The doeskin quiver held twenty shafts that Shadak had crafted himself: the flights of goose feather, stained red and yellow, the heads of pointed iron, not barbed, and easily withdrawn from the bodies of the slain. Swiftly he strung the bow and notched an arrow to the string. Then looping the quiver over his shoulder, he made his way carefully back to the trail. Would they have left a rearguard? It was unlikely, for there were no Drenai soldiers within fifty miles. But Shadak was a cautious man. And he knew Collan. Tension rose in him as he pictured the smiling face and the cruel, mocking eyes. "No anger," he told himself. But it was hard, bitterly h...

Product details

• Authors: David Gemmell
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.10.1999
• EAN: 9780345407993
• ISBN: 978-0-345-40799-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Drenai Sagas; Drenai Saga; Drenai Saga; Drenai Sagas; Random House Worlds
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy